Pasteboard dispensing-package for elastic.



H. A. AUSTIN.

PASTEBOARD DISPENSING PACKAGE FORELASTIC. APPLICATION FILED FEB.15.1913.

1,210,883. Patented Jan. 2, 1917.

i To all whom it may concern:

UMTED STATES PATENT @FFIQE.

HERBERT A. AUSTIN, or BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO EVERLASTIK,INC.,

A CORPORATION or MASSACHUSETTS.

PASTEBOARD DISPENSING-PACKAGE FOR ELASTIC.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 2, i917.

Application filed February 15, 1913. Serial No. 748,713..

Be it known that I, HERBERT Aunnnrus AUsTIN, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of the city of. Boston, county of Suffolk, andCommonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Pasteboard Dispensing- Packages for Elastic, set forthin the following specification. I

This invention relates to a dispensing package or box useful forshipping and dis-.

pensing a tape-like article like elastic webbing, tape, or ribbon.. I

Objects of the invention are to provide for the adequate protection ofsuch an article in the form of a coil or reel; to provide for dispensingthe same without opening the package; and to make provision forrewinding or recoiling any surplus which may inadvertently have beendrawn out.

tained when the package is used either as a self-sufficient dispensingpaokageor when mounted in a display cabinet of any suitable or wellknown construction.

The invention is pointed out more particularly in the following claimswhich should be read in view of the illustrative embodiments of theinvention described in the following specification and shown in theaccompanying drawings, which form a part of this application, in whichlike characters, designate corresponding parts and in which Figure 1 isa cross-section through a cabinet, showing one of the boxes inelevation; Fig. 2 is an unfolded or fiat blank from which a box isformed; Fig. 3 is an elevation of the box with parts broken away andwith part of the construction shown in section; Fig. 4 shows a pluralityof the boxes of Fig. 1, arranged side by side and viewed from the rightof Fig. 1, partly in elevation but with parts broken away and partsshown in section; Fig. 5 is a detail elevation showing a modification ofthe guide; Figs. 6 and 7 are front plan views of the modified detail ofFig. 5; Fig. 8 is a fractional section also showing the detail of Fig.5; and Figs. 9 and 10 are respectively a fractional elevation and afractional section showing another modification of the guiding means.

A suitable cabinet for dispensing products such as elastic webbing orthe like is shown in cross section in Fig. 1. A troughor in paste boardbox manufacture.

It is contemplated that these objects are to be atcradle-like structureisformed by side string-pieces 1 and 2 framed at their ends in a mannerillustrated by the end frame 3. A transparent cover 4 ofsuitableconstruction is pivoted as by hinges 5 to the bottom trough-likestructure which is conveniently made of wood. This trough-like structuremay contain compartments or not as desired. Fig. 2 illustrates a blankof cardboard or 'pasteboard suitable for dispensing packages from whichmy package is made up by bending along the dotted lines'and securinglapping parts together in manner well known In the embodimentillustrated my box is of a mutilated square contour,:one corner beingsevered or omitted along the line 7 so that the inclosed reel 8 ispermitted to project or to be accessible in a manner shown in Fig. 1.The box 6 comprises parallel side faces 9 and 10; edge walls 11, 12 and16 and tabs 13, 14, 17, 19, 20 and 50, all of which are formed bybending the blank of Fig. 2 along the dotted lines. The wall. 16 isprovided with a dispensing slot 18 and is openable and closable upon thetabs 19 and 20 to provide for the insertion of the reel 8. The tab 50 issecured to the wall 11; the tab 13 to the wall 12; and the tab 14 to thewall 10 in any suitable manner as by means of an adhesive.

In dispensing the elastic webbing or tape it is desired that the tape 30after passing out of the slot 18 be drawn up over the upper corner ofthe box with the same in a position such as indicated in Fig. 1, andthen down and out through the dispensing slot 31 in the display cabinet.To prevent the elastic webbing or tape 30 from falling off the corner 32of the box suitable means for guiding it and holding it in this positionis provided. In Figs. 1, 2 and 4, this means is shown in the form of astiff, narrow strip 35 of suitable material held to the box 6 by the lip36 formed by providing the parallel slots 37 and 38 in the wall 10.WVhen such a package is being shipped, this strip or guide 35 may bepushed down with its upper end 39 flush-with or underlying the corner ofthe box 6. To operate as a guide it should be pushed up in a positionsuch as shown in Figs. 1 and 4. One such guide 35 is sufficient for abox 6 when the same are stacked side by side as indicated in Fig. 4, thetape or elastic 30 lying between adjacent guides 35. In Figs. 9 and 10 amodification of this guidingmegr s is ilh stgategl in the flimenf; ree l8.;iac. ce ible for re= winding, and: the

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" AUSTIN:

LEbfiA gD DAY.-- 7 With; JS S GHWEIGERr

